Painter/printmaker Joyce Zavorskas received her BFA from Syracuse University, her MA in teaching from Bridgewater State College, MFA from MassArt, and extensive independent study and graduate work locally and abroad. She studied painting with Ron Rizzi, Lois Griffel, Rosalie Nadeau, Don Stone, Skip Whitcomb, Don Demers, Joe McGurl, Joe Pacquet and Marjorie Portnow. Following the documentary impulse has also been inspired by painters Rackstraw Downes, Clyde Aspevig and Charles Woodbury.

   Recent work includes a series of site-specific plein air oil paintings generated from direct observation in nature, hiking cliffs with backpack and easel. Joyce has painted en plein air since 1987, when she had the opportunity to stay in the Peaked Hills Trust dune shack for a week, and experienced the fragility and beauty of coastal Cape Cod from dawn to dusk. She continues that experience with independent painting projects, annual stays at the Sladeville cabins with the 21 in Truro painting group, yearly trips to Martha's Vineyard, and weekly painting trips with Plein Air Painters of Cape Cod. Painting in France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Hawaii and CA has provided further opportunities to expand her vision. Corporate commissions include Pfizer Inc., Bowditch & Dewey, and Beth Israel/Deaconess Hospital.

 She has lived year round on the cape for 28 years and earned numerous awards and honors, including the 2005 Adrian Tinsley Award for Excellence in the Arts from Bridgewater State College, Copley Artist status in 2005, First Prizes in Painting from Copley Society, Creative Art Center, and Cape Cod Art Association, and the 2010 Ture Bengtz Award in Printmaking from the South Shore Art Center.

www.joycezavorskas.com

www.leftbankgallery.com

www.capegalleryframer.com

www.copleysociety.org

 www.bostonartinc.com

 

 

“My images are generated from direct observation in nature, hiking the cliffs

with backpack and easel, documenting shifting shadows and tides, and the eroding coastal environment.”